Comment by akimball
1 year ago
Au contraire. It is a tradeoff between application programmer effort and compiler writer effort. Amortization infers it is better to have an extremely advanced IR optimizer.
1 year ago
Au contraire. It is a tradeoff between application programmer effort and compiler writer effort. Amortization infers it is better to have an extremely advanced IR optimizer.
Then why do zero cost abstractions exist? Languages like rust and C++ make the trade off on the application side rather then the compiler side.